Noticing an Unexpected Situation

Being stationed at in the forth group, meant that James was in the support group for the main formation. He did understand the importance of this, however was a bit sad in his heart that he was not there fighting against the hybrids.

"Here comes another one, James be careful" Francis shouted towards James. After understanding their rhythm a bit because of the spar they had, coordinating the attacks against the flying demonic beasts also became a lot easier. They had already killed one of these beasts, as the second one was flying towards them. Their tactic was rather easy. As Francis is better build compared to James, Francis was the distraction. In this time, James used his mobility to sneak to the back and strike the flying beasts at a less covered spot. Not being properly equipped, because of his background, has helped James to move around easier. The current combination they had when teaming up against a single target helped them get rid of their targets rather easily.

No one knew if it was effective or not, but still Francis tried to taunt the flying beasts by shouting and waving his arms towards the flying beasts, "Come here you ugly face. I bet your was abandoned because of your face." For some reason it did help to get the beasts attention, as it started to fly towards Francis. Looking at James Francis said, "Well it is your time now, I will try to hold it back so you can get behind it and strike its back."

James was as confused as some others surrounding them, no one knew how those taunts actually worked. James even thought he saw the devil getting angrier as Francis was scolding it, as the beast was getting physiologically hurt. Ignoring this thought, he followed the rhythm that they had set in order to kill the beast.

As Francis was holding the beast back with his shield, James took the opportunity to strike at the belly of the flying beast. For some reason, the belly was less covered, and easier to strike. As his sword lunched towards the flying beast, James heard cheers from the main formation. After making sure that his opponent died, they looked at the formation, to witness the great lion hybrid shouting its last cry before lying still on the ground.

"Our guys did it, with the formation made by Highness, we will kill all the hybrids in the field." Francis said excited. "Happily nodding, James agreed with him, "Well, for their formation to work, we have to work extra hard to protect them, so let's continue on."

Just when Francis was about to taunt another flying beasts towards their location, a shout could be heard from the formation. James though that they killed another hybrid, but soon discovered that this was not the case. "Protect the prince!" "Reform the formations!" "Shield wall! Where is the shield wall?" Hearing these shouts, James froze at his spot as he looked back at the main formation just to witness the demonic hybrids jumping into the air towards the prince's location.

Looking at Francis, they were both lost to what to do. Providing support to the formation was important, however protecting the prince was even more so. It was like they both understood what they were thinking as they started to rush towards the location where the prince was, in order to try and protect him.

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